Kütahya Geo-thermal Tourism
With 7 Thermal Tourism Centers, Kutahya has the richest geothermal sources in Turkey. Those centers are Ilıca-Harlek, Gediz-Ilıcasu, Gediz- Muratdagı, Emet-Yesil ve Kaynarca, Simav-Eynal Kaplıcaları. Kütahya provides alternatives in health tourism with its extensive geo-thermal resources.
Many diseases such as rheumatism and paralysis, or several diseases related to gynecology can be cured with the aid of thermal water treatment. Kütahya included to the “Branded City” Project of Culture and Tourism Ministry would be the best profitable centers for investments in tourism industry. It has also many historical inheritances from Phyrigian, Lydian, Selcuid and Ottoman civilizations.
Kütahya Ceramics
In Kütahya 12 companies make various ceramic production (ceramic coating material, sanitary wares, stoneware, porcelain tableware etc). In these companies located in Kütahya around 4.300 people are employed. With this figure Kütahya keeps 2% of ceramic sector labour of Turkey. Worldwide well-known big ceramic producers are operating in Kütahya.
In Kütahya where this sector is so widespread there is an university had ceramic engineering (Dumlupınar University) and ceramic vocational programs. Over 400 students are educated on engineering field. The sector is likely to evolve into technical and advanced ceramics and there is a huge prospect for new investments in this vein.
Kütahya, one of the provinces of the Region, is included in Eskişehir-Bilecik-Kütahya Ceramic Business Cluster, and there is a general Ceramic Research Center in Eskişehir where is 75 km (45 Min.) away from Kütahya.Also, in Kütahya, one glass producer with a furnace capacity of 100 tons (440 million pieces tableware production and 1200 employees) and one refractory material producer with the capacity of 330 tons per annum (525 employees). This largest producer and supplier of refractory products for steel, cement, glass, lime, nonferrous and some other industries in Eastern Europe and Turkey is located in Kütahya.
Kütahya Mining & Energy
According to MTA (Mineral Research & Exploration General Directorate), in Turkey, Kütahya is one of the cities having the rich underground sources, metallic mine and industrial raw materials, such as boron, kaolin, silver, chromium, alunite, antimony, cupper-lead-zinc, iron ore, manganese, magnesite, cement raw materials, feldspar, gypsum and fluoride. Among the mines Turkey has, Boron, having 72% of the World reserve, and 70%of this reserve, that is, 1.681.474.000 tones, is located in Kütahya (Emet).
The only operating silver mine of Turkey with 20.000.000 tons reserve (equals to 3.650 tons metal silver reserve) is located in Gümüşköy-Kütahya.
Kütahya has rich deposits of kaolin and magnesite. A large proportion of magnesite used in Turkey is produced in Kütahya. Kütahya has also rich lignite deposits, that’s why it has two thermal power plants.